Autographic register.



E. J. BARKER;

AUTOGRAPHIG REGISTER,

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ENGLAND J'. BARKER, OF MORGAN PARK, ILLINOIS.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented 0011.26, 1909.

Application filed April 22, 1907. Serial No. 369,600.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ENGLAND'J. BARKER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Morgan Park, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Autographic Registers, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description.

My invention relates to autographio registers employing several continuous strips of record paper, that are drawn from the interior of a box-like casing forwardly over a bed-plate or platform to and between a pair of delivery rollers, and then torn off, or, one or more directed down into the case of the register and rewound upon a suitable roller known as the record-roller.

The object of my invention is to actuate either the delivery-rollers or the recordroller by gearing that will permit the operator to actuate the former independently of the latter, or engage the latter and depend upon the friction of the record-strips to actuate the former. This I accomplish by simple mechanism which can be easily and quickly manipulated to convert the register either into what is known as .a dupligraph in whichall the record-strips are torn off after leaving the delivery rollers, or tripli graph, in which one or more of said record-strips are rewound upon the recordroller after passing between said delivery rollers, according as desired, substantially as hereinafter fully described and as particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a side view of the front end of an autographic register having my improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the gearing constituting my invention removed from the register. Fig. 8 is a fragmentary view of the register showing the end portion of the delivery-rollers and disengaged gearing on the extended end of one of the journals of one of the same in cross section. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing a side view of the gearing on the extended end of one of the journals of one of the rollers with the members thereof in engagement. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view of one side of the register in cross-section showing a modified form of my invention applied to the same. Fig. 6 is .a similar view of yet another modification of the same. Fig. 7 is a side view of the gearing removed from the register and embodying still another modification. Fig. 8

shows fragments of one side of the register in cross section with the modification shown in Fig. 7 in plan view.

Referring to the drawings A represents one end of an autographic register having a platform or bed-plate A which forms a back-ground for the record-strips when being written upon; B and G the deliveryrollers of the same that are ournaled on the sides thereof, one above the other, in substantially the same vertical plane near the top of the machine, and D represents the record-roller, the journals of which have bearings in the side of the register nearer the front contiguous end of the same, about midway its height.

Rollers B and O are connected by gears Z) and c that are, preferably, mounted on their ends adjacent to the side of the register next which my improvements are located. One of the journals, (Z, of one of the delivery rollers, say C, is extended beyond its bearings in the side of the register, and has a pinion e loosely mounted thereon which is free to revolve independently but is incapable of independent longitudinal movement. The boss f of this pinion e is elongated toward the outer end of the said journal d, and has its end edge provided with suitable projections f, that are adapted to engage corresponding recesses g in the opposed edge of a longitudinally reciprocal head 9, to form a clutch, through the medium of which the rotation of pinion 6 can be transmitted to the extended journal (Z, and through it to the delivery rollers. The clutch head 9 is permitted'to have the longitudinal movement on said extended journal by means of a spline and groove connection therewith, but revolves with said journal. In Fig. 3 this head 9 is shown at the limit of its outward movement against the outer extremity of the journal (Z, and it is provided with a longitudinally disposed spring it, consisting of a fiat strip of elastic metal one end of which is riveted or otherwise secured to the reduced portion of said head and the opposite overhanging inner end of which is given an inwardly bent V-shaped form. WVhen this V-shaped end of the spring h is between the opposed ends of the boss 7 and head g, the members of the clutch will be disengaged, but when the head 9 is forced toward the said boss the hook-shaped end of the spring will ride over the side of the boss until the projections of the latter enter the recesses in the head whereupon the two parts of the clutch will be retained 1n engagement, by reason of said hook-shaped end drive-gear meshes with and drives a gear F secured on the end of the journal of the record-roller D.

The operation of this preferred form of my invention is apparent; by engaging the two parts 7 and g of the clutch, pinion e imparts the motion it derives from the rotation of drive-gear E to the delivery-rollers, while the record-roller is simultaneously revolved. When the parts f and g of said clutch are disengaged, the drive-gear will actuate only the record-roller and will not impart its motion to the delivery-roller.

I11 Fig. 5 of the drawings I show a modification of my invention, which consists of a 7 large drive gear 2 that is loosely journaled on the end of either a suitable shaft or stationary stud 3, projecting from the side of the register, mediate the journals of the delivery-rollers 4 and the record-roller 5. This drive-gear is movable longitudinally on said stud between the side of the register and the outer headed end of the same. and, when adjusted at the limit of its movement toward the register, it engages gear 6 on the extended end of the journal of the recordroller, and will be out of operative engagement with the delivery rollers. When the drive-gear is moved to the limit of its outward movement, however, it becomes disengaged from the gear 6 and engages with a pinion 7 on the end of the extended j ournal a of, say, the lowermost delivery roller. In order to retain said drive-gear in engagement with gear 6, I place a coil expansionspring 9 between the outer headed end of stud 3 and the boss 10 of said drive-gear, and in order to retain said drive-gear in mesh with the pinion 7, I extend boss 10 outward and provide it with a laterally disposed spring depressed bolt 12, that enters a circumferential groove 13 in the stud 3. In the last mentioned position spring 9 will be contracted, and in order to permit the movement of the drive-gear toward the reg- 1 ister the spring depressed bolt will have to be withdrawn from the groove 13.

In Fig. 6 I show yet another modification of my invention. This consists in journal- 1ng an enlarged drive-gear 14: on a stud or j H end of the shaft 15 projecting from the side of the register mediate the delivery-rollers 16 and the record-roller 17. The end 18 of the delivery-rollers, say the lowermost one, is extended beyond its bearings, as is likewise the journal 19 of the record-roller 17. Between the adjacent sideof the register and the outer headed end of the extended journal 18 of said delivery-roller, a pinion 20 is mounted, which has its boss 21 extended outward a suitable distance and provided with a laterally disposed spring-depressed bolt 22, which latter is substantially the same I as the bolt 12 of boss 10 of drive-gear 2, of

the modification shown in Fig. 5. Between the outer end of boss 21, and the head of said journal 18, I place a coil expansion spring 23, which latter, when expanded, keeps pinion 20 at the limit of its inward movement, out of engagement with drive-gear 14:. WVhen gear 20 and its boss are moved to the limit of its outer movement, the spring bolt 22 engages a circumferential groove (similar to groove 13 shown in connection with Fig. 5) in said extended journal 18, and retains the pinion 20 in engagement with drive-gear let in the same manner as the mechanism described above in Fig. 5 operates. The extended journal 19 of the record roller 17 is provided with a gear or pinion 25, which is provided with an outwardly elongated boss out of engagement with the drive-gear, or

the record-roller can be engaged therewith and the delivery-rollers disengaged therefrom, or vice versa.

In Figs. 7 and 8 I disclose yet another modification of my invention, in which, instead of a cog-wheel, a double sprocketwheel 29 is suitably journaled on the end of a stud or shaft projecting beyond the adj acent side of the register at a suitable point between the delivery-rollers 30 and the record-roller 31. This double sprocket-wheel is connected by means of a chain 32 to a single sprocket wheel 33 that is loose on the extended journal 3d of, say, the lowermost delivery-roller, and said double sprocketwheel is also connected by a chain 35 with a single sprocket-wheel 36 fast on the end of the journal of the record-roller. When the drive-sprocket-wheel 29 is turned, the record-roller will be revolved thereby, and as the sprocket wheel 33 on the extended journal of the delivery-roller is loose, mo-

tion will not be transmitted to the latter.-

ploying a longitudinally movable head 38, whose edge opposed to said boss is also serrated to engage the same. This clutch mechanism is constructed in every substantial respect similar to the clutch used in connection with the preferred form of my invention, as shown in the first four figures of the drawings.

What I claim as new is 1. The combination in an autographic register with a suitable bed-plate, a pair of delivery rollers, a pinion on the outer end of the journal of one of said rollers, and rotatable therewith but not directly connected thereto, a series of strips of paper adapted to be drawn over said bed-plate by said delivery-rollers, a record roller upon which one of said strips of paper may be wound after passing between said delivery-rollers, and a pinion on the extended end of the ournal of said record roller, of a drivegear adapted to directly engage either or both of said pinions.

2. The combination in an autographic register with a suitable bed-plate, a pair of delivery rollers, a pinion loose on the end of the journal of one of said rollers, means for imparting the motion of said pinion to said journal when desired, a series of strips of paper adapted to be drawn over said bedplate by said delivery rollers, a record-roller upon which one of said strips of paper may be wound after passing between said delivery rollers, and a pinion on the extended end of the journal of said record roller, of a drive-gear adapted to directly engage said pinions simultaneously.

3. The combination in an autographic register with a suitable bed-plate, a pair of delivery rollers, a pinion loose on the end of the journal of one of said rollers, a clutch consisting of a part integral with said pinion, and a longitudinally movable part revoluble with said journal for imparting the motion of said pinion to said journal when desired, a series of strips of paper adapted to be drawn over said bed-plate by said delivery rollers, a record-roller upon which one of said strips of paper may be wound after passing between said delivery rollers, and a pinion on the extended end of the journal of said record roller, of a drive-gear adapted to directly engage said pinions simultaneously.

4. In an autographic register, the combination with a suitable bed-plate, delivery rollers, a record roller, and strips of paper adapted to be drawn over said bed-plate, either by said delivery rollers or by said record roller, of a pinion on the end of the journal of said record roller, a pinion loose on the end of the journal of one of said delivery rollers, a gear mounted upon the casing of said register adapted to drive both of said pinions simultaneously and to rotate the journals thereof, and means on the journal of one of said delivery rollers whereby said journal may be disconnected from said drive gear and prevented from being driven with the latter.

5. In an autographic register, the combination with a suitable bed-plate, delivery rollers, a record roller, and strips of paper adapted to be drawn over said bed-plate either by said delivery rollers or by said record roller of a drive gear, means whereby said drive gear may cause the record roller to rotate, means whereby said drive gear may cause the delivery rollers to rotate simultaneously with the rotation of said record roller, and means whereby the driving of said delivery rollers, by the drive gear, may be prevented, said means comprising a pinion loosely mounted upon the journal of one of said delivery rollers and capable of meshing with said drive gear whereby the journal may be freed from direct connection with said drive gear.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 15th day of April, A. D., 1907.

ENGLAND J. BARKER. [1,. s.]

Witnesses:

M. G. STOLL, E. K. LUNDY. 

